(Protectorate Year: 410)
Dear Master
Salutation, Master, it’s once again your most devoted swimmer in all the 11 seas, Seavani Worker Bubbles Fontain Dosanska, First Daughter of Seavani Worker Wavena Agua Veuet and Seavani Worker Oceana Bubbles Waterufalla, Born of the Deeps Spawn Pit on Disputed World Gedri.
Deep in the darkest trenches of Disputed World Gedri lies the Deeps, a vast city full of Seavani swimming about. Great mountains of hollowed out rock jut out from the ocean floor, the light of your sun unable to penetrate this far beneath the water, and the only light comes from the majestic bioluminescence of various fish and massive crystals. A vast rainbow of colors reflecting around the town and lighting the ocean depths for miles around us.
Amidst the colors and gentle ocean currents, Sisters swam about. Flipping, twisting this way and that, doing impressive underwater tricks as they went about their daily tasks. As the old saying goes: ‘a Seavani swimming straight isn’t a true Seavani’.
I was, at the time, hanging out with a dozen of my friends. At the highest peak of one of the hollowed mountains, we were removing the pale-white, glowing crystals from their fixtures and replacing them with new ones. The crystals absorb light and softly release that light when in the dark, so the spent crystals had to be returned to the surface to recharge. The crystals fit together on the peak like a massive bouquet of flowers, and each individual crystal was the size of my torso. They didn’t weigh much, thanks to being underwater, but it still required a team effort.
But then, a Seavani Seer swam up to us, “Bubbles!”
Four of my sisters and I turned our heads, “yes?”
“Err, no. Bubbles Fontain Dosanska.”
I, and one of my friends, kept pleasant smiles, “yes?”
The Seer sighed, then pointed to me, “you. There’s been a problem with the kraken, and you’ve been selected to deal with it.”
My eyes rounded and my ears drooped. “I… I have to… deal with the kraken?”
My sisters giggled at my misfortune, but this was no laughing matter.
“Yeah,” the Seer scratched the back of her head. “Apparently, she keeps attacking ships on the surface. Human ships, I mean, so it’s not that big of a deal, but Master told me to stop dragging our fins and put a stop to it. So, I guess you should get to it.”
I gulped, “w-well, if Master told you… th-then I’ll do it!” I raised a clenched fist and brought it high, then swam off.
Now, obviously, there’s no air this far underwater. We communicate through a complex bioluminescence in our horns, and a high-frequency series of clicks and waila. Our throats are strong and can carry sound far whilst in the water, and because the new glow crystal wasn’t installed; it was dark up at the top of the mountain, meaning our glowing horns were brighter. What this means is that while I was swimming down, I ‘heard’ some things I wasn’t supposed to hear.
“She’s gonna die, isn’t she?”
“Probably.”
“Glad I’m not dealing with the kraken.”
“I wonder why Master chose her. Maybe there’s a good reason for it.”
“Maybe Master just doesn’t like her, haha.”
“Oh! If she does die, that’ll mean I’m the one and only Bubbles Fontain Dosanska in the Deeps!”
“Actually, there’s another at the shell library.”
I puffed my cheeks with water (a sign of displeasure among we Seavani) and swam away.
Swimming to the ocean floor, I was met with the bustling activity of the Deeps market, located on the south-west side of the giant mountain with the glowing crystals at the peak. All kinds of surface trinkets being passes around, bartering various polished shells or pearls back and forth, and even the occasional food item being sold. Large crab monsters are a Seavani’s favorite pets, so there were baby-crabs in boxes to be sold, toys for them, pet food, and shell-polish. The best sight was Seavani laying on rocks to get their fur trimmed, or their tail scales waxed to a mirror shine. Given how gravity doesn’t matter much underwater, the market stalls were built into the walls of a deep, shallow pit reaching down to another large crystal that lit up the market with a warm, fiery orange glow. The crowd was a big ball of sisters somehow managing to swim around each other as they moved from shop to shop.
Whilst in the market, I obtained two sea-horses, a sea-cart, and a load of sea-food. My logic was that, if the kraken was heading all the way up to the surface to smash human ships, that must obviously have meant she was hungry. When I don’t eat, I get cranky. So if I were her size, I’d probably swim up and do the same thing to the detestable humans.
With my preparations complete, I grabbed the sea-reigns of the sea-horses, and brought them to the north side of the city. We followed the sea-road for about two sea-miles until we came upon a sea-cave.
“Warning,” the sea-sign said, “kraken ahead.”
The gills on my neck opened to allow a bit more water to pass through, which is to say I took a deep breath to try and steady myself. “C’mon, sea-horsies, time’s wasting…” I wasn’t particularly confident about my intercession with the kraken, but I had to swing my fins and push forward regardless.
The sea-cave was a long, twisting tunnel which progressed at a steady decline. The walls wide enough for two sea-horses to walk comfortably. There were no lights, I had to rely on my glowing horns to illuminate our path. Because of how Seavani language works, keeping my horns a constant color would be like saying “aaaaaaaaaaaa” all the way down. The sea-horses even huffed at how annoying it was, but I didn’t bring a sea-flashlight so there wasn’t much I could do.
We finally reached the end of the sea-cave and came upon the sea-hole. The sea-horses were getting restless. I was too.
There was a rocky platform jutting out into an abyss, black all around us. Sheer blackness, my horns were the only source of light. From past experiences, I knew swimming straight up would lead to the surface, eventually, but this was a circular hole with the kraken’s nest at the bottom.
I blew bubbles out my nose, which would be analogous to a sigh of among surface dwellers, then swam forward. There was a large golden bell set in a large stone shrine, and a hammer to hit the bell with. I swam past it to look over the edge. Pure darkness beneath me, save for two glowing red eyes in the far distance.
Given the distance, and how big they appeared, quick mental maths determined that each eyeball was no doubt larger than me.
“Well… let’s get this over with.”
I swam to the sea-horses and released them, allowing them to turn around and head back to the city. They knew the danger of the kraken and didn’t want to deal with it. The cowards.
So, without further delay, I took the hammer. It was a bit hard to swing, given that I was floating in the water and not planted on the ground, but I gave it my all. The heavy hammer smashed against the golden bell, and the collision forced out a hefty, reverberating ‘gong’. But the real use was that the precariously placed bell, and the stone structure around it, tipped over, and fell off the platform which jutted into the darkness.
It then fell into the hole.
A moment later there was a horrible crash, followed by a “KYAAA-GYAAA-GYAAA-WAAAA-WAAAA!” Of the kraken screaming in the darkness.
I swam back and floated there, politely. My hand stayed behind my back, and I forced a smile.
I felt the rumblings of the kraken moving up from the depths. I knew her long tentacles were coiling up the walls, one only a few dozen feet to my right. The pressure of so much water being displaced as her heavy form rose up was immense, I needed to swim against the current just to stay in place.
A tentacle, dark grey with spots of pure black, and thousands of small suction cups, brought the bell up and slotted the undamaged structure back into place.
Then, her main body rose. So much obscured by the darkness, but her eyes glowed bright, and looked down on me like sea-spotlights. The rumblings of her movement finally halted, and we were left alone.
“…H-hi.” I waved.
She didn’t respond. She only blinked one eye at a time so I’d always be visible.
“Uh… so, you’ve been attacking human ships on the surface, right?”
“BLUBAGLUBA GA BUGHBULB.” She said, the sound reverberating deep in my ears.
“Err, right. Well, uh, stop. Master told a Seer to tell me to tell you that it’s causing issues.
“AGABAGULBUBALGA!!” She sounded angry, and her eyes turned sharp and ferocious.
“…be that as it may! This is an order from Master.” I gestured to the sea-cart, the weighted wood frame piled high with underwater delicacies. “I’ve brought you an offering to sate your appetite, so don’t attack anymore.”
CRASH!
A strong gust of water blew from my right, and the sound of cracking wood carried along the current. When I steadied myself, I swam to the sea-cart to find that it had been completely destroyed! Crushed flat, and all the food was ruined too! Not eaten, not used, she didn’t bring the splattered food to her mouth to eat, she just wasted it.
“Y-you monster!” I screamed, my horn glowing with an intense red to convey my anger. “How could you do that? Do you have no sense in that fat head of yours? Do you have any idea how much food was in there? If you didn’t want it, you could have just said so and I could have eaten it! Why, that was enough for me to eat like a king for… like two whole sea-days!” I crossed my arms and looked away in disgust, “stupid squid-thing…”
“BLUGAGABAGA! BLADGHA!” She protested.
I rolled my eyes, “whatever. So, if hunger isn’t enough, how do I get you to stop raiding the surface? Humans are gross, I get it, but you can’t attack them.”
Sheepishly, the kraken’s eyes wavered, and she brought a tentacle up to the rocky cliff. She set it down gently so the current wouldn’t push me, and she gestured her eyes over to it, “BLUPLEPLA.”
I raised an eyebrow and went over to the side until I found her tentacle. That same dark grey sheen with black markings, it was the off side of the tentacle, no suction cups. I put a hand on it, bouncy and kind of rubbery, just muscle without any bones. As I traced my hand along the tentacle, I eventually found the issue.
A giant, six-foot-long harpoon gouged inside, with scar tissue having grown around the foreign object. With what I know about harpoons, the metal spear part has a curved bit of metal jutting out, making it harder to remove.
“Hmm.” I rubbed my chin, “so this is the issue? You have what amounts to a splinter, and you’re taking your frustration out on the human ships?”
She nodded, and blinked a few times.
“Hmm…” I swam around the harpoon, inspecting the wound and the tentacle around it. It was in there quite deep, and I wasn’t sure how to best wiggle it out. “I think,” I said cheerfully, “the best way to take it out would be quick and suddenly, like a sea-bandaid.”
I heard the kraken swallow water in preparation to speak, and that’s when I struck! With my powerful Seavani fins, I spun quickly underwater and smashed my meaty tail against the side of the harpoon. Down low, by the metal, to make sure it’d get knocked out.
Sadly, my perfect plan… didn’t work great. The wood shaft of the harpoon broke into splinters, which slowly rose to the surface. The metal bit of the harpoon was sent sideways, digging into more meat of the tentacle.
“Oops…”
I turned to the kraken and her eyes were bloodshot, out of focus. It was so sudden that she was in shock, the pain didn’t reach her tiny-kraken brain yet. But then it hit all at once.
“KYAAAAAA-GYAAAAAH-HAAAAAAA!”
A scream so loud I had to curl into a ball and cover my ears. My face clenched and my muscles flexed as her voice rattled even my bones. At this point, she saw me as an enemy that needed to be destroyed. So, from out in the deep darkness, she took one of her tentacles and swung it.
I felt a vague rumbling my way, then the tentacle wrapped tight around me. Knowing she couldn’t hit me, she dragged me to the watery depths of the sea-hole, then I felt the water press down hard on my head as she flung me upwards with her monstrous kraken strength.
Up and up and up, the water rushing past me, the incredible pressure against my flesh. I could barely keep my eyes open, but what I saw was the water around me slowly turn from black to vibrant blue. The kraken threw me so hard that I was approaching the surface! I even flew past a school of Seavani as they swam; nearly took a sister out.
Then, I breached the sea’s surface. A massive geyser exploded from the otherwise calm sea, and water droplets were sent miles around as I flew up into the sky.
Eventually, my ascent began to slow, and I could open my eyes fully. I was far above the clouds. Massive puffs of white which I had only seen from below the water, and above me was the sun! It shined so brightly, its touch so warm on my fur and scales.
“Oh, Master, is this what the other strains get to see-ACCK!” I grabbed my throat to protect my now-aching gills. It burned. The air hurt. My Seavani body wasn’t meant to be in the air like this, was I about to suffocate? Was trying to help the kraken a suicide mission?
Finally beginning my descent down, I looked to the water eagerly, my hands on my neck, my horns flashing between blue and red as I couldn’t help but feel the urgency and danger of the air. Closer and closer to the water, I passed through a low-hanging cloud and felt myself covered in small droplets of water, but it wasn’t enough.
Through the cloud, so close to the water, but I still couldn’t breathe.
Then I saw a ship.
In the vast, wide ocean, with nothing around for miles, I just-so-happened to be on a collision course with the only ship around. My horns flashed even brighter, I tried wiggling my tail this way and that to steer myself away, my hands shot up to my mouth to keep myself from screaming.
But it was all in vain.
I landed on the deck of a ship with a meaty crunch.
The crunch was the wood, of course. Because the bottom of the sea is under dozens of miles worth of pressure, Seavani bodies have to be able to withstand that immense amount of force. So, falling from above the clouds and smashing through two wooden decks of a cargo ship are, comparatively, not much of an issue.
But I still couldn’t breathe.
So there I was, flopping around the third deck, out of my element, holding my mouth with my eyes shut tight. Above me were two prominent holes, with light pouring in, and dozens of humans were running around, asking what happened or shouting to see if everyone was okay. My horns were flashing fast enough to cause seizures, a common tactic when humans try to capture us.
“S-sister?” I heard a familiar voice say as she ran forward. She put her hands on my chest, and I felt a leather rough glove. Was this another Slavani? On a human ship?
I forced my eyes to open, and it was my land-dwelling cousin, a Worker.
Her face lit up, “howdy! My name’s Worker Bella Donfier Sarah.” She put a hand out to shake my hand, and even though I was suffocating, I still shook it to be polite. “How’d you, ah…” she looked at the holes above me, “how’d you come from the sky? That’s ironic, haha.”
This idiot! Could she not tell I was suffocating over here?
I readied myself for pain and spoke thusly, “n-eed… wa’ah!!” My gills burned from so much oxygen passing through them, but it had to be done! She needed to throw me over the ledge, or something.
“Need… water?” Bella cocked her head. She studied me for a moment. “You mean to ‘breathe’? Sister, are you, like, an idiot? Haha, we’re Slavani. We don’t need to ‘breathe’, breathing is just so we can talk. Just stop trying and you’ll feel better.”
“…” I took my hands from my mouth and stopped the unconscious reflex of breathing. Sure enough, I was fine. It didn’t even hurt. The flashing of my horns died down, then switched to a soft, warm orange. “How di-ACCK!” The pain came again and I grabbed my gills as I flailed around once more, smashing my thick tail against nearby furniture and nearly tipping over Bella.
“Stop trying to speak!” Bella stomped her paw. “That’s what’s causing the issue.”
It took another moment for my gills to stop hurting, then I looked around and saw a few more sisters around us. But I heard human voices earlier.
Just then, as if to answer my question, the captain of the ship marched down from a nearby staircase. “Bella!” He said with a gruff and tuff voice. “What was that noise? What hit us?”
Bella smiled and gave an exaggerated salute, “sir! It was a Seavani, sir. She fell from the sky.”
“Seavani can fly?” The captain asked, I think his name was bob, or something. All I know is that he had these two curling horns atop his head. “Ask her what she’s doing here.”
Bella glanced to me with a frown, then looked back to bob. “Err, she can’t talk, sir. She’s out of the water so she can’t breathe.”
“Then chuck her overboard and get to asking.” He turned on his heel and walked out of the Slavani quarters of the ship.
“Sir!” Bella said in confirmation with a delightful smile. After lowering her salute, she removed her gloves, tossed the pair to the side, then turned to the other sisters on the deck, “let’s get to it.”
The others nodded, and six sisters formed a circle around me. They bent their knees, put their hands on me, and then their eyes shot open! They recoiled in horror!
“Ack!”
“Eww!”
“Gross!”
“You’re wet!” Bella cried, disgusted, “why are you wet?”
In a panic, all the girls who tried to lift me shook their hands, or started wiping them on their clothes. As I couldn’t speak, I frowned and gestured to my lower half, which is a giant fish tail.
“Hm.” Bella crossed her arms, “bring some towels over!”
I wasn’t sure why sisters who hated getting wet would be on a ship in the middle of the ocean, but I also couldn’t ask. The girls got a few towels and threw them over me, then they started wiping down my scaley lower-half and my furry upper-half, getting the grooves of my horns too. Bella made sure to rub my face all over, and it was a nice little massage.
Once I was fully dry for the first time in my life, my body suddenly exploded in a gust of hot steam which filled the room like a smoke bomb. The loud sizzling echoed sharply across the lower deck, and slowly dissipated as the steam vented out through the ventilation system, and the giant hole I crashed through. It took a moment for the thick white cloud to clear, but when it did, I was left sitting on the floor, with LEGS!
Fur covered legs, two of them, and a furry tail at my back. Both of those legs ended in paws, just like a normal Slavani.
I looked down at them, as did my sisters. Shocked, stunned, I wiggled my claws slightly. “…uuh-ACCK!” I grabbed my throat and fell to the side, kicking my feet and rolling. Despite having the legs of a normal Slavani, I still had gills, and it still hurt to breathe.
“Oh, I think I remember hearing something about this,” Bella said, tapping a finger against her chin. “Master designed these Seavani so that, when dry, they become like normal Slavani, so they could walk to other sources of water, or something. Like moving from the ocean to a lake further inland.”
I had never heard of something like that, but most sisters in the Deeps had never left the sea. That being said, it’s just yet more proof that the Seavani are the best and most loved of all four of Master’s creations.
No matter. With my body dry and suddenly a lot lighter, Bella and another sister chucked me over their shoulders, then marched me up the stairs towards the top deck. It was a huge ship, from the looks of it. The sides plated in metal, with five massive sails sprouting from the top deck. There were big metal tubes connected to platforms on either side of the ship, with large metal balls the size of my head neatly arranged in pyramids by each tube. There were a lot of horned humans around too, doing a lot of odd jobs around the place, though I didn’t know enough about ships to recognize any specific action.
A few humans turned to watch as a small cluster of sisters walked me over to the side of the ship, then chucked me off. I remember hearing a few screams of surprise, like “why’d you throw her over?!” But I guess the misunderstanding got cleared up.
I fell for a while, and I got to see the full size of the ship too. Massive, it could probably fit a thousand sisters across all its decks. But when I hit water with a great big sploosh, the water soaked into my fur and I exploded into steam once more, with thousands upon thousands of bubbles rising to the surface before popping. When the bubbles cleared, I was left once more with my tail!
“Ahh!” I said, “my tail!” I swam in a circle and thoughtfully rubbed the scales. “And my voice!” I rubbed my hands over my neck. “Ahh, it was a nightmare, not being able to talk. Glad everything’s better now, I never wanna even see legs again.”
I swam up and my head breached the water’s surface. The ship was still traveling, so I had to swim to keep up. I made sure that my neck was always below water, so my gills wouldn’t accidentally swallow air.
Up on the top deck, Bella, the other sisters, and a few humans were peaking over the edge. “Hoi there!” Bella said as she waved, and I waved back. “So, what were we talking about?”
I shrugged. What was I doing? I was suffocating, then I hit the ship, then these sisters, “oh! What are you doing on a human ship? You can’t swim, can you?”
Bella opened her mouth, but captain bob, who was also there, spoke first. “Your Seavani friends like to poke holes in ships that pass by, or sing so loud at night that my crew can’t sleep, or mess with the rudder. If we have your sisters with us, your kind leaves us alone.” Bella and the others nodded along.
I narrowed my brow, “you kidnapped them?”
“I’m paying them for their services.”
Bella nodded with a bright smile, “we get five meals a day, and all we have to do is laze around the ship until some Seavani come around! It’s a pretty nice racket.”
I want five meals a day in exchange for doing nothing…
Bella’s eyes scanned the horizon, “by the way, where’s your school? Did you get lost?”
“Hm?”
“Your school, your pod. Where’s all the Seavani you’re traveling with? It’s rare to see one of you alone. And why’d you come from the sky?”
“Well, I actually live on the ocean floor, the Deeps. The only reason I’m on the surface is ‘cause I got thrown by the kraken… oh, right, the kraken.” I plunged my head below water to look straight down, and, sure enough, just beyond the blue haze of the ocean, the kraken was swiftly approaching. “AAAH! THE KRAKEN!” My horns flashed from red to blue in alarm. Using my strong tail, I breached the surface of the water in an elegant jump, “the kraken is here!” I yelled in a single breath as the water droplets and mist perfectly reflected the sunlight on my elegant Seavani form.
The crew, who had heard of the kraken’s many victims of late, were quite worried and were sent into a panic. The Workers were less concerned. Even a beast knows that Workers are under Master’s divine protection.
When I hit the water, the kraken’s long tentacles shot up and wrapped themselves around the metal hull of the ship. Beneath the water, I saw the large, terrible main body of the kraken pull itself closer. Two massive, glowing eyes, and a thick beard made of dark grey tentacles, each capable of independent movement, and each a different size. Within the small forest of tentacles sat the kraken’s mouth, where row after row of razor-sharp teeth were placed, a perfectly designed system for ripping and grinding whatever unfortunate creature managed to fall -or be dragged- inside.
I saw her eyes flicker and flinch, and when I looked up at the ship, I saw the crew grab their swords and start stabbing away at her tentacles. I also saw humans open windows on the hull, and they pointed small metal tubes out. The end of the tubes cracked like sea-thunder, with a bright light and smoke blowing out of the tube. When the tube aimed at one of the tentacles, chunks of flesh were blown off, though the reason why eludes me.
One of the tentacles was raised in the air away from the ship, and the Slavani used their wings to flutter over to it. “Sorry, Captain,” Bella said as she landed her paws on the appendage, “but there’s not much we could do in this fight anyway.”
“T-traitor!” The captain yelled as he sliced a deep gash in the kraken’s arm.
“Traitor? No, sir!” Bella sat on the tentacle and affectionately rubbed it, notably not bothered by the water droplets, “Master Herself created her, thousands of years ago, even raised her when she was just a little baby kraken! Just think, she actually laid eyes upon Master’s last incarnation! You could say she’s something like a big sister to us. Family comes first, even before free food.” All the sisters behind her nodded. “But for what it’s worth, I hope you survive.”
“Grr!” The captain began bellowing orders to his men. There was a lot of explosions, and slashing, and the kraken made a mess of the cargo ship. Large fissures appeared in the metal, deep indents from where the kraken thrashed her limbs against the hull. It was a beautiful sight of destruction to behold, and yet it left me uneasy. She was going after humans, which is cool, but there was no love or passion in it. She didn’t kill humans for sport, or entertainment, or to help the Slavani, or to glorify Master. She did it in a blind rage. Out of pain, and revenge.
I looked down at her body, and I noticed she had one tentacle pulled back. Only one which she was protecting. It had to be the one with the harpoon in it.
In that moment, one of the large metal tubes attached to the top of the ship CRACKED, and flew out one of those large metal balls, along with fire and a cloud of smoke. The black iron went straight through a thick tentacle that was fighting the crew on the top deck, and severed the meaty appendage instantly, blowing chunks of kraken meat all over the surrounding waves. The tip of the tentacle fell limp on the deck of the ship, hanging over the edge slightly as it wriggled and spasmed. This was okay, since the krakens tentacles will grow back and heal. The harpoon, however, healed wrong, and was stuck inside her, rubbing inside her flesh with every breeze of the current. It must have been causing a great deal of pain.
So, given the good-hearted sister I am, I swam for the kraken’s main body.
Her large eyes shot to me, “BLUUBABAAAGAAAA!!” She screeched as two tentacles pulled away from the battle and lunged for me.
“Ah, so you remember me, do you?!” Flipping this way and that, spinning in the water, dodging the tentacles by only a hair’s breadth, then using the water currents to expertly propel me into the next impressive maneuver. Nobody can beat a Seavani in the water when she’s decided to get serious, not even the kraken! “Sorry about earlier, but I’m removing that harpoon for sure this time!”
She was protecting her wounded limb and fighting both me and the ship with all her might, but it wasn’t enough. I’m just too good a swimmer for that. She even tried swinging her wounded tentacle around to keep me from grabbing on, but that failed too. It took a bit of work, but I caught up to her arm and gripped the small bit of exposed metal harpoon. The scar tissue around the base was damaged and bleeding slightly, which was probably a result of me trying to slap it out of her.
“BLU-PI?!”
Her eyes went wide as I reached the wound and gripped the harpoon with both hands. She froze. Paralyzed. Pressing my tail against her flesh, I pulled back with all my might! “Hngh!”
Her eyes wavered, fading in and out of consciousness, while the rest of her immense body twitched and spasmed.
Slowly, inch by inch, the spikey harpoon was being pulled out.
“BLU-!”
“PI-!”
“GLUR-!”
With one final tug, using all my might, I RIPPED the jagged harpoon out of her arm! And a bit of her flesh too. It was a long metal spear, with three curved ‘scythes’ jutting out like an umbrella so it couldn’t easily be removed. The exit wound… let’s not focus on that.
“I-I did it! I saved the kraken! I’m the greatest-!”
She wrapped me in her wounded tentacle, again, and threw me several miles above the water.
It was a while before I returned to the surface. It also took a few sea-days for me to find my way back to the Deeps. I got lost for a while, had a lot of misadventures that aren’t as exciting as this kraken one, and was even able to see the stars and moon. But find my way back to the Deeps I did, and I returned as a hero.
Immediately after my launch, while I was still in the air, the kraken was so relieved to be free of that harpoon that she pulled her tentacles back into the water and returned home to sleep. Captain bob’s ship was safe, but Bella and the others got dumped in the water with a sploosh, and had to be rescued by the humans. There was no risk of drowning thanks to the fact that they didn’t need to breathe, but they were left traumatized and shivering from getting wet. They got over it soon enough though, and were able to keep her job of doing nothing but eat. The kraken’s many limbs also healed before long.
But most importantly from this adventure, I was from then on known throughout the Deeps as “Bubbles, the KRAKEN SAVER!”
Though, the kraken complained to the Seers about my performance and I was banned from giving her offerings ever again. Not sure why. All in all, I did a pretty good job.
Oh well, not like it matters to me. I didn’t want to take care of her anyway.
Sincerely yours
– Seavani Worker Bubbles “the Kraken Saver” Fontain Dosanska, First Daughter of Seavani Worker Wavena Agua Veuet and Seavani Worker Oceana Bubbles Waterufalla, Born of the Deeps Spawn Pit on Disputed World Gedri.